High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yazid ibn al-Walid ibn 'Abd al-Malik or Yazid III (701 - 744) (Arabic: يزيد ابن الوليد ابن عبد الملك ) was an Umayyad caliph. He reigned for six months, from April 15 to October 3 or 4, 744; and died in that office.